"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Veteran's Day, 2009

Some facts to ponder:

To date more than 27,000 men and women have been wounded in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq....The amputation rate of wounded soldiers in Iraq has doubled from previous wars to 6% of those injured....24.9 million military veterans live in the United States....1 in 3 homeless males are veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces....76 percent of veterans experience alcohol, drug, or mental health problems.